Plot Pings With Gnuplot

Recently I was discussing some problems occurring on my landline with my ISP’s customer service, and some connectivity issues that they couldn’t fix. After sending them a couple of traceroutes, pings, router logs, I also decided to plot some of the data for them, because they seemed having difficulties to spot the problems.

So I made a simple bash command to store the ping time values in a file and plot it with Gnuplot. This is the command you can execute in your terminal / shell :